Potential benefits for growers and consumers include less food waste and improved yields BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The J.R. Simplot Company announced today it has entered a strategic alliance ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI)– Simplot celebrated the 80th anniversary of the opening of their Pocatello Don Plant with an event on Tuesday. The Don Plant processes phosphate ore and produces fertilizers ...

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho company that successfully brought genetically modified potatoes to the market announced an agreement Thursday to help a California-based plant breeding company grow ...

US food group Simplot has decided to hang on to two plants in Australia it had said could close but warned costs would have to fall to keep them open in three years’ time. Simplot said in June the ...

That Simplot Foods plant that Grand Forks residents drive by along Gateway Drive has a sort of permanence. It's been there for a half century. Inside, the Simplot plant is a changing, evolving place ...

POCATELLO — Prominent leaders and representatives of the community, including county commissioners, Idaho State University leadership, mayors and lawmakers, gathered inside a grand white tent Tuesday ...

It could take a while to determine the cause of Monday´s spectacular feed bunker fire at the J.R. Simplot Co. potato-processing plant, fire and company officials said. The mission of Firehouse is to ...

BOISE — J.R. Simplot Company and Caviness Beef Packers have partnered to build a $100 million beef processing plant near Kuna, Simplot officials announced Tuesday. Construction on the nearly ...

A field northeast of Aberdeen is in the final stages of transforming into Idaho’s most technologically advanced crop service facility, thanks to a multi-million-dollar agribusiness investment by J.R.

The Australian arm of US-based food group Simplot has warned two factories could close, putting around 325 jobs at risk. Simplot Australia said today (5 June) it has advised employees at plants in New ...

GRAND FORKS - The strike is over for the J.R. Simplot Co. plant in Grand Forks. About 2 p.m. Friday, the union accepted a contract limiting overtime hours for employees at the potato processing plant.

After a day-long union meeting, employees of J.R. Simplot went on strike, picketing outside the potato processing plant in Grand Forks at about 6 p.m. Monday. Employees of JR Simplot Company take to ...